Tiny Link - a Wordpress plugin to create a TinyURL for your articles

Tiny Link is a Wordpress plugin that creates an alternate TinyURL link to your article or post permalink. This will be useful while sending hyperlinks in emails, typing on mobile devices, et al.

I was in search of a way to automagically get an alternate short link for the lengthy URL of my articles. I tried a plugin but somehow went kaput and never worked for me. I decided to write one for myself and came up with a very simple solution. - Tiny Link.

Well, Tiny Link is a Wordpress plugin that creates an alternate TinyURL link to your article or post permalink.

I hope this will be useful while sending hyperlinks in emails to avoid the word-wrap for lengthy article URLs. This should also be useful (as far as I can guess) to mobile device users so they will can type a shorter url to read an article.

TINY LINK

Visit & Download Tiny Link from Wordpress.

USAGE

The most straight forward usage would be to add this simple script

<?php TinyLink() ?>

to one of your template - “single.php”.

However, a slightly advanced usage will be, to first check if the plugin is installed, if yes, then execute this module. We can even give a direct link to it, so users can copy the link by right-clicking (Mac: Ctrl + Click) the hyperlink.

<?php if (function_exists('TinyLink')) { ?>
Tiny alternate link for this article: 
<a href="<?php TinyLink() ?>" title="TinyURL link to - <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php TinyLink() ?></a>
<?php } ?>

Feel free to give me your feedbacks, errors encountered, bugs founds, et al. If you wish to take it further, you’re most welcome to join the project.

Brajeshwar posted this article on Sat, Aug 18th, 2007 at 3:14 am
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Akshay Surve August 18th, 2007 at 1:59 pm 1

One of the cutest plugin out there
Malathy August 21st, 2007 at 3:48 pm 2

This is a fantastic blog. I wish I had known it much earlier.
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Mutiny Design August 22nd, 2007 at 3:14 am 3

Is this an ‘SEO-friendly’ plugin?
i.e. is this a 301 redirect?
Brajeshwar August 22nd, 2007 at 11:32 am 4

@Mutiny Design:
No, and there is no reason to make it such. Tiny Link should be used as an alternative link to be used while sending links to somebody or to type on a mobile device or when you just need a shorter link. The main link should be used for the usual purposes - linkbacks, hyperlinking within your article.
Sally, design guru October 21st, 2007 at 11:44 pm 5

Frankly speaking, i don’t think that it is so useful. Just one more plugin to satisfy customers needs and wants.
Brajeshwar October 21st, 2007 at 11:50 pm 6

Very true. I needed something to get my job done and so, I came up with this plugin. I released it to the public, just in case somebody needs something similar.
K1DF0X April 23rd, 2008 at 4:47 pm 7

Are there any plans to update this to support WordPress 2.5?
Brajeshwar April 23rd, 2008 at 5:12 pm 8

@K1DF0X
I don’t remember anything complicated or un-usual that it should not work with Wordpress 2.5. Have you tried it? My feeling is that it should work.
K1DF0X April 25th, 2008 at 10:56 pm 9

Hmm, the problem I have is once I have inserted the code into my template, the default text “TinyURL alternative…” appears but the actual TinyURL link isn’t there.
Brajeshwar April 26th, 2008 at 4:33 am 10

@K1DF0X
It works for me on both Wordpress 2.5 and 2.5.1. If you can show us your site, it will be easier to see the actual issue. Would you like to try the forum and post the necessary issue in the “Tiny Link” Wordpress Plugin Section.